Blowing in the Wind

There is this strange ever shifting rationalization that I hear people refer to often when they examine their own lives.

The standard of "better than" and "worse than" in contrast to others. It's a dangerously slippery slope to travel. One that is based in judgment of the situation of others known and unknown. One that leads to both  unwarranted and unmerited content or discontent because we assume that we are somehow different than they. It is a shallow premise for the mere rationalization of our perceived conditions.

Whatever it leaves us feeling it is fleeting at best and based only in our own imaginations. It also seems seductively deceitful in a sense to comfort ourselves about our own well being or suffering based on the perception of the opposing condition we might imagine in the lives of others.

Our standards should instead be based in absolutes that can provide us with either a mark to know when we have arrived or a measure of how much further we have to go. In either event it is a far more accurate gage of our progress. You cannot judge your speed by the surrounding traffic.

We may never arrive, but it is the journey not arriving that is the point. It is a process, not a product, something we forget all too often sacrificing processes for products.

Aim for the unattainable and you may find life to be better than you ever imagined possible.

Solo Cristo Salva
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